Users

IAM User is an entity, which will be accessing AWS resources. The entity can be a person or an application that needs fixed credentials to access AWS resources. The IAM user allows us to generate credentials to access the AWS Management Console or generate programmatic access credentials to access from AWS CLI or AWS SDK. The IAM User can have Groups or Policies attached to get the required AWS resource permissions.

Let's look at different ways to create AWS IAM Users.

AWS Management Console

The AWS Management Console allows us to create and manage the Users.

Create an user

Create a new user under your AWS account using the following steps:

1. Go to the AWS IAM Management Console and click on Users from the left navigation pane or you can directly go to https://console.aws.amazon.com/iam/home#/users. Under Users, you can see a list of users created under your AWS account.

2. Click on the Add user button:

Figure 2.12: Add User

We will need to provide the following details:

• • Username: Type in aws-bootcamp...